Author said, using cell phone on driving cause accidents, because driver’s attention was distracted. That’s why governments over the world have posted restriction on cell phone usage while driving. The restriction may vary in different places. Some are totally prohibited the use of cell phone during driving, some are allowed the use of cell phone with hand-free devices. In additional, automobile insurance will be lost if the accident is involved talking on cell phone.
However, the speaker stated that using of cell phone is not strongly related to car accident. Traffic accidents are also caused by other issues, like talking with passengers, eating, making up or even attend to children. A research on driver by video recorded driver’s behavior revealed that most car accident is mainly caused by different kind of distractions like looking at GPS device. At the end, speaker suggested that cell phone actually safe life or even reduced road accidents. Drivers can use cell phone to make emergency call, report road accident and possible road hazard.
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